Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.

A behind-the-scenes battle to take the reins of the Republican National
Committee is taking off between former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and
former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele.

Neither man will acknowledge his interest in the post, but
Republicans close to each are burning up the phone lines and firing off
e-mails to fellow party members in an effort to oust RNC Chairman Mike
Duncan in the wake of the second consecutive drubbing of Republican
candidates at the polls.

A bevy of backers for each man, neither of whom is an RNC member,
say the committee needs a leader who can formulate a counter-agenda to
President-elect Barack Obama's administration and articulate it on the
national stage.

"The Republican National Committee has to ask itself if it wants
someone who has successfully led a revolution," Randy Evans, Gingrich
confidant and personal attorney based in Atlanta, told The Washington
Times on Monday. "If it does, Newt's the one."

Former California Republican Party Chairman Shawn Steel told The Times
that Mr. Steele, chairman of GOPAC, a national organization once headed
by Mr. Gingrich, "wants to be Republican national chairman."

"I've talked to him many times, and he definitely wants it," said Mr. Steel.

Word of the fight over the RNC post came Monday as Democratic National
Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who is widely credited with developing
the "50-state strategy" that helped elect Mr. Obama, is stepping down
in January at the end of his term.

Republicans, especially state party leaders, have become envious of
the organization and money that Mr. Dean's operation deployed in two
victorious election cycles in which Democrats regained and expanded
control of Congress and captured the White House.

Republicans agree that their national party is leaderless and in
desperate need of someone who has the force of personality and history
of accomplishments to command national attention to take on Mr. Obama.
Someone is also needed to unite disparate factions that, even in the
best of times, generate internal friction among themselves.

The Republican Governors Association meets in Miami this week, and
the fortunes for Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Steele or Mr. Duncan, who is
considering a re-election run, may surface at the four-day meeting.

"I have not made a final decision," Mr. Duncan told The Times late Monday. "I am calling members for advice and consideration."

Mr. Duncan is credited with having raised prodigious sums of money
for the Republican candidates, including John McCain and Sarah Palin in
the just-concluded 2007-08 election cycle.

One of the most active state party chairmen is frank about his chairmanship aspirations.

"I am phoning members," Saul Anuzis told The Times. "I am not aware
of any calls Steele has made. I understand he was going to use his
GOPAC conference [this week in Florida] to kick off his exploratory."

Mr. Gingrich, who heads two organizations, isn't campaigning for the RNC job personally.

"I am not a candidate for RNC - I am focused on American Solutions
and the Center for Health Transformation," Mr. Gingrich said in an
e-mail exchange with The Times on Monday. "I think that is where I will
make the biggest contribution to creating a new generation of solutions
and actually getting them implemented."

Mr. Gingrich is remembered as the former history teacher from
Georgia who led the "Republican Revolution," first as a backbencher in
the House during the Reagan era and eventually the electoral earthquake
in 1994 that brought the Republican Party into the majority in the
House and the Senate for the first time in 40 years.

Mr. Steele's conservative GOPAC was founded by former Delaware Gov.
Pete du Pont as a national candidate recruitment and training
organization for state and local offices.

Those like Shawn Steel who want to see Mr. Steele as the face of the
party say he has the "it" required for national stardom - that he is
tall, articulate and charismatic. Mr. Steele headed the Maryland
Republican Party (and was the only black state party chairman) before
being elected lieutenant governor and then losing his U.S. Senate race
two years ago.

"I believe that the RNC ought to recruit a superstar," Mr. Steel
said in a dear colleague letter to other RNC members. "That superstar
should have the following qualities:

- instant media recognition and credibility;

- knowledge of where and how to raise money;

- the ability to convince members of Congress to take visionary
pro-growth and pro-family stands, that when some members act like Democrats they do a great disservice to the party's brand."

On the Democratic side, Mr. Obama is expected to choose a successor to
Mr. Dean, the one-time presidential candidate and former governor of
Vermont. Mr. Dean's tactics initially had generated some tension in the
party between party chairmen and Washington insiders, including Mr.
Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who is considered the strategic
architect of Democrats' congressional victories.

While you are at it, contact Fox News too. ....hath no fury like a woman scorned? How about an avid McCain campaign worker scorned made to work on the Palin campaign?

Think about it, if you were a true John McCain believer, a believer in all those trips across the isle and then made to work on one of the most conservative republicans since Ronadl Reagan, I think you would be hacked off.

What about jealousy? The unpopular REpublican candidate, held in disdain by most conservatives because they see McCain as an underminer of Bushes entire presidency, and then this upstart of a woman comes on the scene and obviously recievs all the cheers and adulaTION.

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